Chapter 1

The momentum of the charging and rampaging Ban Niu (spotted ox) could only be described as a steam locomotive magnified ten times and traveling at full speed!

Who would dare to stand in its way with such a terrifying collision?

In the western position held by Fang Senyan and his group, there were approximately one hundred contractors. At least seventy of them were ranged attackers. After excluding a few unconventional individuals and agile melee fighters, only a dozen or so could truly stand at the front lines. However, only Reef dared to call himself a "tank" (a character whose talent must include defensive effects to be considered a tank)! This demonstrated the scarcity of tanks.

As Mogansha's signature golden Desert Eagle spat out long muzzle flashes, all ranged attacks targeted the giant beast's left foreleg. Of course, due to the battle line's width of nearly a hundred meters and various other factors like angle, less than a third could simultaneously focus fire. The rest had to deal with the swarming ordinary beasts.

In reality, if there was only one such giant creature, as long as the ranged firepower was saturated enough to cripple it quickly and reduce its movement speed, it wouldn't be too threatening. After all, its biggest weakness was its lack of ranged attacks.

The true terror of the charging Ban Niu (spotted ox) was its ability to disrupt formations, allowing creatures like the Viper Wolves to face the ranged damage-dealing contractors in the rear unimpeded. Such targeted attacks would immediately throw the battle into chaos. If an ordinary team were charged in this way, even if they weren't wiped out on the spot, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses!

Fortunately, Reef possessed a powerful area-of-effect slowing skill, which naturally intercepted the Viper Wolves' subsequent attacks. Although these ordinary beasts' attacks were decent, they weren't ranged and couldn't focus fire. Reef had a dozen people around him who could step forward and spread them out, aiming to stall them rather than kill them quickly.

Once the Ban Niu's foreleg was crippled and its movement speed was drastically reduced, a faster contractor could attract its attention and lure it away. The remaining contractors could then focus on killing the Viper Wolves and calmly dispatching the Ban Niu (spotted ox).

Objectively speaking, Reef's battle plan was flawless. However, accidents always haunted the battlefield like ghosts. Just as the giant Ban Niu (spotted ox) approached within twenty or thirty meters, more than a dozen strange, golden-skinned beasts suddenly appeared behind it. They aimed at the ranged contractors, who had just finished a round of fire, and puffed out their cheeks, spitting!

These golden beasts looked very strange. They had the slender beaks of cranes and the curved necks of pheasants, but their lower bodies were oval and flat like turtles. They had six legs, four of which were hooves for walking. The front two legs were curved and mutated into mantis-like serrated blades, making them look extremely ferocious.

Their skin was smooth and dry, but loose and wrinkled. The outlines of their muscles could still be seen beneath the skin. When these creatures straightened their necks to spit at the distant contractors, their necks swelled up grotesquely like cobras, and they shot neurotoxic spines from their long, pointed mouths!

In the midst of the chaos, the lookout contractor managed to relay the creature's information in the first instance:

Name: Stinger (Common).

English: Long Neck. Na'vi: ulong a. Scientific name: ac'shan ac tuupa...t'…lhg

Height: 1.8 meters. Weight: 70 kilograms.

Strength: 6 points.

Agility: 10 points.

Stamina: 8 points.

Perception: 5 points.

Charm: 3 points.

Intelligence: 7 points.

Spirit: 7 points.

Basic ranged combat: lv5. Basic footwork: lv4

Biological Ability: Embrace of the Thunder Rock: Increases the owner's health by 150 points.

Biological Ability: Camouflage: Stingers can effectively change the color of their skin to hide themselves and launch surprise attacks.

Stinger Special Ability (Passive): Neurotoxin Secretion Overflow. Causes muscle stiffness and difficulty breathing in those injured, reducing movement speed by 30%, attack speed by 20%, and dealing 5 points of damage per second for 15 seconds.

Stinger Special Ability (Passive): Hairless Skin. Reduces elemental damage received by 15%. The smooth skin also has a 5% chance to cause enemy attacks to miss.

Stinger Special Ability (Passive): Blade Feet. Every successful melee attack will be a critical hit. However, the curved claws can easily get stuck in the enemy, so after hitting an enemy, there is a 30% chance of being unable to perform a melee attack for 3 seconds.

Introduction: This animal, called "Pa'li" by the Na'vi, is one of the strangest and most dangerous animals discovered on Pandora to date. These terrestrial carnivores like to live in tropical rainforests and primarily prey on peacock deer.

They are 1.8 meters tall, have muscular necks, and triangular heads with poisonous spines that can secrete neurotoxins. When approaching prey, these creatures will move slowly and silently through the forest to avoid making noise. When they sense prey, their rooster-like necks will rapidly fire poisonous needles and then capture the prey.

The first wave of poisonous needles fired by the Stingers immediately killed two ranged contractors. These highly intelligent creatures even understood how to focus fire on a single target for concentrated damage. For ranged damage dealers who were strong in attack but weak in defense, the single-hit damage caused by their poisonous spines could even reach 70 to 90 points.

What was even more shameless was that the poison damage from their attacks could stack!

For example, if attacked by one Stinger, the attached poison damage was 3 points/second for 15 seconds. Then, being attacked by two would result in 6 points/second for 15 seconds...and then 9 points/second for 15 seconds and so on.

In fact, the first attack of this group of Stingers targeted three people at the same time. Four Stingers focused on one person. The targets of the focus fire were naturally the most prominent ranged contractors. As a result, the focused-fire contractors almost all died instantly before they could even use any medicine. The survivor was naturally Mogansha, who dealt the most damage. First, he had the 'Tenacity' health bonus from his silver team ability. Second, his equipment had been strengthened by Reef using crystals brought back from the Star River World. Even so, he was almost instantly driven into a near-death state.

Startled, Mogansha immediately disregarded his image and performed a forward roll. Then, he activated the team ability "Radiant Healing," which negated the accompanying additional poison damage and provided continuous healing. After the 15 seconds of poison damage had passed, he applied a bandage and only stood up to attack again when his health had recovered by more than half.

The sudden appearance of enemies with ranged attack capabilities caught the contractors off guard. This was mainly because these Stingers were too cunning. They had been hiding behind the Ban Niu (spotted ox) until they got close before suddenly attacking, causing considerable damage.

However, the contractors who had made it this far were almost all strong individuals who had survived countless battles. Although there were casualties, they were not unfamiliar with fighting enemies who also possessed ranged attacks. Naturally, the first thing they did was to find cover and then calculate the opponent's attack interval.

This attack interval was the time it took for enemies using gunpowder weapons to empty their bullets and reload their magazines. For creatures like the Stingers, it was the time required to inhale, exhale, and spit after firing a poisonous spine.

By grasping this attack interval, one could grasp the pulse of the attack, seize the rhythm of the attack, and take control of the battlefield.

Five ranged contractors belonging to a team called "Sons of Kadang" concentrated their firepower. Each attack would severely injure or even instantly kill a Stinger. At the same time, two agile melee contractors from the same team abandoned their opponents and snuck around from behind the Stingers, obviously intending to take advantage of the chaos.

Strictly speaking, even though they were both ranged attackers, Fang Senyan still felt that these creatures were different from the tentacle monsters they had encountered in the previous world. At the very least, the tentacle monster's circle of eyes was incredibly OP, supposedly monitoring 24/7 with no blind spots, and was not afraid of anyone sneaking up from behind to attack its rear.

The Stingers naturally suffered heavy casualties under the concentrated fire! But don't forget that the two agile melee contractors had abandoned the targets they were luring to provide assistance.

The two Viper Wolves that they abandoned couldn't just stay where they were, lazily yawning, sunbathing, and mating belly-up. Naturally, they ran towards Reef... If Reef hadn't been holding back his strength earlier, and if Fang Senyan was just a helper without the potential to be a tank, then without a doubt, Reef would be either dead or seriously injured this time!

More importantly, with the appearance of the Stingers, no one was following Reef's command to shoot at the Ban Niu's forelegs anymore. So, the Ban Niu (spotted ox) was still vigorously chasing a guy using a sniper rifle. This unfortunate kid had caused the most damage, so naturally the Ban Niu (spotted ox) hated him the most! By the time the Stingers were suffering heavy casualties, this contractor was about to be caught up by the Ban Niu (spotted ox).

"Save him!" Faced with this situation, Fang Senyan shouted loudly in the team channel!